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2007-06-14 01:30:55
JohnDoyle
Registered: May 3 2007
Posts: 26

Hi. I've created a form using Acrobat 8 Pro and am trying to get a way in which whenever someone sumbits the form it will create a new sequential job number. Is there anyway of doing this and avoiding duplicating the numbers? Any advice would be appriciated.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
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2007-06-21 21:53:01
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thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
There are a few possibilities. The first one is to have a server script that distributes the numbers from a central location. But of course this requires being connected.

Another method is to use the Date and Time down to the 100th of a second. This isn't foolproof, but it should work pretty well. You can augment the number with info from somwhere else to make it even more unique. But this method creates long numbers.

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